...if you changed the theme of this message board? It's the default phpbb theme and it's rather boring. I think something a little more creative, or something like the rest of the website would look better.

Plus I don't like blue.

I can do this if you guys want, I'm pretty good at installing templates.

(Thanks for the nudge.) I've looked at the existing choices (the demo). One of the red styles looked okay; seemed to me we could do better. Color-wise, I'm thinking RED, amber, and some dark contraster, whether heavy brown, or black, or whatever. And I think we need to get the SVR logo up into the banner area up top.

I know a bit of html but have never dived into styles like this before. I went on to the phpbb homepage and looked around a bit. They themselves seem to be of two minds about users customizing styles and so on - on one hand, Yeah! Sure! Do it! and on the other, Look out! Danger!Stop screwing up! http://www.phpbb.com/styles/

Noster Iohannes, of course, would be the best person to tell us what he means by a "draft"; but I wouldn't mind seeing a mockup of some kind, an image (maybe a screenshot) of the proposed theme, with the custom SVR elements pasted in via an image editor.

I regard our basic color-scheme as being: Black, amber, white, and that deep red that we've got on the sidebar of our Web site. The gold-on-black logo is our nicest one; a gold background, like on the business cards I did up for the Curatores, is also an option for areas not containing large amounts of text.

Whatever we go with, do keep it usable for the visually-impaired (like Marius). Good contrast, an easy-on-the-eye color-scheme, and the ability to resize the text are a must. Also, there's no reason not to download more than one theme; we could add any or all of the ones Sodales have said they liked on the demo-theme thread Iohannes mentioned.

Mi Minucia, I am so pleased that you have made this offer. A lot of things haven't been done on the site and on this Board for the simple reason that I don't know how. The efforts of others who are more technically adept than I are always appreciated. >({|:-)

As they say in those romantic comedies: "It's not you, it's not me, it just didn't work out." Rather not go into the details here. Yes, we needed Octavius. Let's just say I'm still on a roll for mess-ups, diplomatic and otherwise.

Unless you have full FTP access or a cpanel, you will have some trouble installing a new template. If you want to use this template but with different colours, you can do that via the admin panel, but you wouldn'tbe able to change the graphics. You could also ask matt to give you a new template, since it's highly probable that he'd have the necessary access.